Telephone-receiver holder



(No Model.)

H. M. WILSON.

TELEPHONE EEGEIVEE EOLDEE.

Paten-ted Nov. 12, 1889.

l WITNEEEIES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE M. VILSON, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

TELEPHONE-RECEIVER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,961, dated November 12, 1889.

Application led August 29, 1889. Serial No. 322,364. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE M. VIL'SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex andCominonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and Improved Telephone-Receiver Holder, of which the following is a full specification, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof. Figure 1 is a side elevation of a telephone fitted with my improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the holder device on an enlarged scale. Y Fig. 3 shows on a still larger scale a section through the holder-arm, and Fig. 4 is a front view of the tubular arm and adjacent parts of a modiiied form of holder device.

My invention consists of an improved holder or support for the receiver of a telephone when. in use, whereby it may rest against the ear of the person receiving the message without being held in the hand.

L, Fig. 1, represents the magneto-box, M the transmitter, and N the battery-case, of an ordinary telephone mounted in the 'usual manner.

A is the holder-rest, preferably of a somewhat hemispherical shapein section, as shown in Fig. l, mounted on a strap or collar A', which embraces the arm B, being held thereon in any desired position by the clamping-screw a. to a second arm or spindle E at right angles thereto in any desired manner, as by a neck or shank b', terminating in a collar b, embracing the piece E and turning thereon. The part E is secured to the plate D, which is in turn secured either to the telephone-transmitter or to the wall.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the plate D has projecting flanges D D', which grip the sides of the transmitter-box between them, the plate D resting either on top of the transmitter-box, as shown in Fig. l, or, if desired, on.

the front of said box.

As shown in Fig. 4, the plate D is secured to the wall or to any convenient part of the telephone by screws d instead of the clamping-flanges.

By the former method of attachment, wherein the gripping-anges are used, I am enabled to secure the device to the telephone without mutilating it in any Way, as by the boring of holes for the fastening-screws, duc.

The arm B is pivotally secured At or near the outer end of the piece E is iiXed the stationary wheel or disk C, around the periphery of which the arln B turns. The arm B is made hollow, as shown in Fig. 3, and within it slides the piece G, on the outer-.end of which is the tooth g, which engages with teeth or indentations around the periphery of the disk C in a manner presently to be more fully described. The piece G is pressed normally inward toward .the center of said disk by the action of the spring S, bearing at one end against'the said piece G and at the other end against the sea-t l) within the tubular arm. G is a second sliding piece on the other side of the seat h, connected with G by the rod G2, which preferablypasses through the spring S and through ahole in the seat I), the whole being operated by a knob H, the shank of which screws into the block G and slides in a slot h made in the tubular arm B.

The arm B, being pivotally secured to the piece E, may be moved around the disk C by pulling outwardly on the knob H, so as to disengage the tooth g from the teeth or indentations in the periphery ot said disk, and the arm B, with the rest A at the outer end, may be held at any desired angle with the wall by allowing the tooth gto engage with one of the teeth or indentations in the periphery of the disk under the iniiuence of the spring S.

When in place 0n the telephone, the arm B hangs down perpendicularly, as shown in Fig. l, when the instrument is not in use. IVhen, however, it is desired to use the telephone, the arm B is lifted into `a more or less horizontal position, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. l, and the telephone-receiver is placed in the rest A, the parts of the device being so proportion ed that the receiver is held against the ear of the person using the telephone when his mouth is opposite the transmitter, the rest A taking the place of the hand.

When the holder is intended to be used on one side only in such position as to hold the receiver always to one ear of the operator, I preferably employthe simpler forin shown in Fig. 4, wherein the part E is rigidly secured to the plate D, which is in turn screwed or otherwise fastened to the wall, so that the only motion of the arm B is a rotary one about the said partE. When, however, as

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is sometimes the case on account of deafness in either ear of persons using the telephone, it is desirable to so arrange the device as to hold the receiver on either side, I employ the forni shown in Fig. 2, Where the piece E is an arm, theinner end of which is pivoted at e to the middle of the plate D in such a manner that the holder may be used on either side of the operator.

As shown in Fig. 2, the device is arranged with the rest- A at the right ear of the operator. To reverse, it is simply necessary to turn the arin E over to the left and by means of the clamping-screw av turn the rest half round on the arln B.

1. In a telephone-receiver holder, the conihination, with a stationary disk provided with indentations along its periphery, of. a hollow tubular arm pivoted on the central axis of said disk, and provided with a springactuated tooth engaging with said indentations, an operaiing-knob and a receiver-rest, whereby the said holder-arm may be held at any desired angle, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a telephone-receiver holder, of a fastening-plate, an arm pivoted to said plate and provided with a stationary disk having indentations along its periphery, a tubular arln pivotedat right angles to the first arm' and provided with a receiver-rest, and a spring-actuated tooth engaging with said indentations, substantially as and for the purposes described In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HORACE M. WILSON. lVitnesses:

WM. B. II..1)owsn, ALBERT E. Limon. 

